My name is Tonie an I'm from Holland and have been trying to get an LMCE setup working.

First of all I'd like to thank the developers for this fantastic package of software, even though I haven't had it running yet I'm very excited about its features! Secondly I'd like to add that I'm a complete and utter newb when it comes to Linux. I grew up using Dos so I'm not unfamiliar with a text based operating system which is of somewhat help to me, but still....

I've started a new job three weeks ago and I have to deal _a lot_ with Solaris from now on so I decided to start fiddling with Linux at home to get some better taste of the *nix OS's. And then I found the LMCE project *wow* excited!!

I had this P4 3GHz barebone PC standing somewhere doing nothing and decided that it had to become my core/hybrid.I downloaded the latest 8.10 snapshot, the latest 8.10 beta for release and the latest 7.10 version and burnt them to DVD.My first install of 8.10 led to nothing but a KDE desktop which, after installing the mce from desktop wouldn't boot anymore.7.10 worked like a charm but wouldn't send an output to my DVI port (which in retrospect turned out to be a broken VGA card)So started (or better tried) another install of the 8.10 version, this time the last beta for release. Well now, after I guess 8x installing it from scratch again and again, reading lots and lots of forums en fiddeling with VI I gout my sources-list as it should be, no more 404's or other errors, then I added a new (secondhand) Geforce card, an oldie, AGP 8x with 265MB of ram. Got video output on all three ports and ended up with a continuous reboot. So some more reading and fiddling later I managed to alter the nvidia-install.sh file and got rid of the reboot bug *fingers-crossed* final reboot?

Nope wouldn't you know.... Now it's stuck at what I suspect is the last part of the booting process.

So to be complete on relevant information (I hope)The machine bootsI get the Kubuntu splash screenI hear the special 80's game style series of beeps (very fast) but it won't react to the shift buttons.When I press (and hold) the shift button prior to these beeps nothing happens.When I press (and hold) the shift button after these beeps nothing happens except my computer will beep every second as long as I hold the shift button.The computer just continues with its booting untill I get the last messages:* stopping NTP server ntpd...done.* starting NTP server ntpd...done.

After those messages the screens (monitor on VGA and television on DVI) will flash, sometimes simultaniously sometimes not, sometimes for the same amount of time sometimes the TV flashes a bit longer)

Now when I press ctrl+F2 to get a command prompt it asks me to log in, if I then become SU after a while it gives the following message:dcerouter _1:/usr/pluto# [ 4958.490056] kobject_add_internal failed for vcs1 with -EEXIST, don't try to register things with the same name in the same directory. [4958.490620] kobject_add_internal failed for vcsa1 with -EEXIST, don't try to register things with the same name in the same directory.

If I wait long enough this message will repeat itself on and on and on and so on, the number between [ ] will differ however every time.

Another thing, when booting 7.10 I could here the descending beeps, which after some time would be followed by ascending beeps, I don't get these ascending beeps while booting.

I can reach the admin page from any computer in my network by going to 192.168.80.1 and change all settings. I can't however tell it to use my modem's IP adress as standard gateway, had that same problem with 7.10 but there I was able to go to KDE and set it as standard gateway after which internet worked with the Core/hybrid as DHCP.

So there I am, I have done everything in my power to get this machine running LMCE and I won't give up but also I don't know where to go from here, I have a feeling (or at least hope) that I've got some setting wrong or maybe I need to change some files or something but I really don't know anymore. Also and actually more so, I've got a 6 week old daughter and a lovely wife who was/is sweet enough to let me "waste" all my time on some computer between work and caring and playing for and with my daughter but her patience is running out I'm afraid

Well.... that's it for now. I really hope one of you guys can point me in the right direction to get this machine up and running again!

Oh, what may be usefull to note is that my computer has an onboard ATI radeon card but I'm using an Nvidia Geforce with VGA, PCI and S-video.In my bios I can only set the priotity on bootup to AGP/PCI or PCI/AGP so I chose AGP/PCI.I've checked the xorg.conf file, it shows (I think) the good values, Device0 Nvidia for VGA monitor and Device0 Nvidia for DVI monitor.

I need more specifics about your hardware.What nvidia card?Do you have 2 nics?Not to go too basic... but does your bios have a setting to disable onboard rather than just choosing the port first?How are you attempting to get sound, and if onboard... what is the board?Try downloading the latest snapshot in the meantime. http://linuxmce.iptp.org/snapshots/You should not have to do anything to your xorg

Wacky.I have not seen anything like the kobject error before. Let's see if correcting some probable errors will help.

You said you can get to the web admin from another machine. Go ahead and do that, at the top go to Advanced/Networking/Network Settings.Click the assign DHCP radio. Set ranges 192.168.80.2-192.168.80.128 for LMCE devicesClick the assign anonymous radio. Set ranges 192.168.80.129-192.168.80.255Set internal IP to 192.168.80.1 subnet 255.255.255.0

The card should be fine.

To be clear... this latest install, you changed the sources.list PRIOR to running the LMCE install script right? Currently it works best to change sources as soon as you get your first KDE desktop, then running sudo apt-get updatesudo apt-get dist-upgradereboot, then run the install script on the desktop.

The IP settings for the network settings are the standard settings right?Because they're allready set like that. When I had the 7.10 distro running I had 'em like that as well but still it wouldn't receive an IP adres from my modem by itself. When I logged into KDE from within MCE 7.10 I was able to set my modems IP adress as default gateway and it would use and distribute internet.Is there maybe a command I can use on the promptline to hard set my standardgateway adress? 'cause at the moment I can't get into KDE or any other grafic shell.

Indeed I updated the sources.list prior to the MCE install and I did reboot after the update and dist-update.To be exact, I did the following:

Boot from DVDChoose option Install LinuxMCEfill in all formschoose option to use entire hddwaited for the kubuntu install to finishused the following list for sources.list:

wget http://us.download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86/260.19.36/NVIDIA-Linux-x86-260.19.36.runsh NVIDIA-Linux-x86-260.19.36.runDo NOT let it change your xorg when it asks.Reboot and see if you can get to AVWizard

The reason I told you to set the network config is because the latest snapshots aren't doing it correctly for me.

Thanks again M8 I've tried it and it seems to have helped me from my failure to setup x problem.However all I get is the same blue screen on both my monitor and TV, just the message is gone.Also, it didn't ask me for permission to change my xorg.conf, it just asked me if it was ok to check and update my Nvidia driver when necessary and I answered yes to that, it then told me to manually change my xorg.conf which I didn't do.I did make a copy of my xorg.conf file as a backup so if something went wrong here I can always restore it.Also I'm still able to enter the admin page, I changed my network a bit today, now it's like this:Modem<-->WLAN router<-->Core/Hybrid<-->Wlan accespoint. Now everything works as it should and the misses can use her internet without having all kinds of trouble connecting cables and restarting modems and routers. I just have to choose with my laptop between the Internet network or the LinuxMCE network according to what I want to do with it.But anyways, the Core/hybrid seems to work fine but just won't boot into the AVwizzard or the MCE shell.I've red that there's a solution for that by changing settings in either the xorg.conf file or the admin page, but I don't want to screw anything up (any more than it is now )

EDIT:this might mean something... I just gave the manual command startx and the computer gives me the following message:

The NVIDIA GPU at PCI:1:5:0 does not have the necessary power cables attached; X cannot use this GPU until the problem is rectified. Please shut down your computer, open its case, and attach all of the appropriate power connectors. Please see the documentation provided with your NVIDIA GPU for more details.Screen(s) found, but none have a useable configuration.

Well now, I really don't know if I should connect anything to my card, the only remedy to find it out is open up the case, so again fingers crossed!

Thanks again M8 I've tried it and it seems to have helped me from my failure to setup x problem.However all I get is the same blue screen on both my monitor and TV, just the message is gone.Also, it didn't ask me for permission to change my xorg.conf, it just asked me if it was ok to check and update my Nvidia driver when necessary and I answered yes to that, it then told me to manually change my xorg.conf which I didn't do.I did make a copy of my xorg.conf file as a backup so if something went wrong here I can always restore it.Also I'm still able to enter the admin page, I changed my network a bit today, now it's like this:Modem<-->WLAN router<-->Core/Hybrid<-->Wlan accespoint. Now everything works as it should and the misses can use her internet without having all kinds of trouble connecting cables and restarting modems and routers. I just have to choose with my laptop between the Internet network or the LinuxMCE network according to what I want to do with it.But anyways, the Core/hybrid seems to work fine but just won't boot into the AVwizzard or the MCE shell.I've red that there's a solution for that by changing settings in either the xorg.conf file or the admin page, but I don't want to screw anything up (any more than it is now )

EDIT:this might mean something... I just gave the manual command startx and the computer gives me the following message:

The NVIDIA GPU at PCI:1:5:0 does not have the necessary power cables attached; X cannot use this GPU until the problem is rectified. Please shut down your computer, open its case, and attach all of the appropriate power connectors. Please see the documentation provided with your NVIDIA GPU for more details.Screen(s) found, but none have a useable configuration.

Well now, I really don't know if I should connect anything to my card, the only remedy to find it out is open up the case, so again fingers crossed!

Lol... yes... there is very likely a mini-molex connector on your card. It requires its own power. It is either going to take a standard 4wire berg or mini-molex, or 6pin... I thought you had said it was an AGP card, so most certainly a 4 pin.

On the subject... what wattage is your PSU?

If it does not immediately come alive after plugging in, and your PSU has enough balls to rock it... you will probably want to do a fresh install.

I feel sooooooo FFing retarded right now......It was a powercable I neglected to connect to my card. Didn't see it either when I plugged the card in but there we go.I've got my LMCE fully up and running finally A week of trial and more trial and now I can finally rest and my wife won't throw it out (sunday was my deadline )

haha thanks!About the PSU yeah, didn't really think of that.I'll try to fetch a better one for this machine, don't really know what's installed from stock but the fact that there's just one power cable splitted up to five connectors makes me think I'll sort that out tomorrow. Right now it's finishing i'ts final install and man did that AVWizzard screen look gooooood at 1080P

If you cannot make UI2 work, it is probably from my bad advice on a duct tape nvidia driver. You might just do a fresh install. I find down the road it is best to get everything working the right way when possible. Everything is connected to something later on.